offthrow

noun 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

The act of throwing off; (by extension) liberation

The theory of a rise of a dome of strata from beneath the sea and the offthrow of the waters on all sides from that dome, their escape through lateral fractures in the upheaved chalk, together with a slow wearing back of the fractured and denuded edges of the chalk in the form of cliffs, […]

Improbable, therefore, it is that the offthrow of the Ottoman yoke by the former, will not be followed by the offthrow of the German and Russian yokes by the latter, Nationalities.

2

That which is thrown off (i.e. discarded, ejected, or emitted)

[…] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proprtion of it, […]

In this latter or northern offthrow, nearly the whole of Peeblesshire consists, and the general dip or inclination of its rocks is accordingly northerly, or more strictly, towards north-north-west.

verb

1

To throw or cast off (all senses)

Thorns of the flesh in childhood man offthrows, Or passions such in headlong youth he knows; […]

"[…] I stand a scarecrow in this land That offthrew the yoke of autocracy."

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